Suzuki Motor Corporation suspends GP racing

[jules_1972]

motogp.com · Suzuki Motor Corporation suspends GP racing

[OneEighty]

Barmp Barmp Barmp...... Another one bites the dust

[Hewie]

We were discussing this the other day elsewhere. Its a real shame that they have left the MotoGP. I spent 3 days hanging with the team in Le Mans earlier this year an they are all awesome people.

[rc_sam]

Pity they are pulling out, but not a big suprise.
Just hope they come back with a kick ass effort in 2014.

[rod]

They were going fairly well this year. Is a shame that they're put a stop to it.

[thro]

ducati next?

[Desmo]

Considering they can't win a race either....

[Grin]

Going to be like the supermarkets soon, just Coles & Woolies left.

[The Saint]

Going to be like the V8 Supercars soon, just Ford & Holden left.

[bobinatcat]

Random question, but are there any rumours of bmw joining gp soon?

[DrRockso]

Sounds like there out for 2 years, back in 2014 and developing a bike during this period and becoming specators. Probably a good idea. For the sited reasons of financial hardship though, Suzuki did come out with new gsxrs this year, with more updates than the other mfrs and I think they came as a tough sell.

[thro]

Random question, but are there any rumours of bmw joining gp soon?

Claiming rule team, not a factory backed entry. But yes, BMW and aprilia should be present in 2012 as i understand it. about 5-7 seconds per lap off the pace if early tests are anything to go by :-\


Surely someone is going to field a kawasaki. If there is one thing kawasaki can make, it is an engine. Given the rest of the bike has to be a prototype, why not use the kwakka motor?

[SOLID]

Surely someone is going to field a kawasaki. If there is one thing kawasaki can make, it is an engine. Given the rest of the bike has to be a prototype, why not use the kwakka motor?

Amen to that!

[Dr. Venkman]

Disappointing that they are dropping out, as mentioned earlier and I agree, the bike seemed to be getting better, hopefully they'll be back, better than ever in 2014

Going to be like the supermarkets soon, just Coles & Woolies left.

*Can see the Coles Racing Team struggling to work on the bikes with very large red foam gloves*

Seriously though, shutup you'll give the fuckers ideas!!!

Claiming rule team, not a factory backed entry. But yes, BMW and aprilia should be present in 2012 as i understand it. about 5-7 seconds per lap off the pace if early tests are anything to go by :-\


Surely someone is going to field a kawasaki. If there is one thing kawasaki can make, it is an engine. Given the rest of the bike has to be a prototype, why not use the kwakka motor?

Even if BMW and Aprilia are CRT's, I would love to see them out there. It shouldn't take them too long to get sorted out should it? Seeing that both run Factory teams in WSBK, would that not mean that they should, in theory at least be able to get the bikes dialled in quicker than many would suspect?

Seeing that Kwakka green belting around again would be damn sweet too.

I just hope Yamaha and Ducati can get thesmselves sorted out early, to provide a decent challenge to the Hondas that would be even better.

[thro]

claiming rule teams = fully prototype chassis if i'm not mistaken (similar to moto 2). unfortunately, you can't run a decently set up SBK machine....

here's hoping they pick up the pace in testing and claw some of that 5-7 sec back, but bear in mind the 1000cc gp bikes are brand new as well, so there's nothing to say they're not going to get faster to match any development done to the claiming rule teams....

[Grin]

Not very encouraging when they are slower than the Moto2 bikes!! From Jerez testing -


CRT
Colin Edwards (NGM Forward Racing) 1.43.9 (39 laps)
Iván Silva (Inmotec) 1.45.5 (40 laps)
Yonni Hernández (BQR-FTR Kawasaki) 1.45.7 (28 laps)

Moto2
Scott Redding(Marc VDS Racing Team) 1.42.9 (52 laps)
Pol Espargaró (Pons Racing) 1.43.3 (45 laps)
Esteve Rabat (Pons Racing) 1.43.3 (57 laps)
Mika Kallio (Marc VDS Racing Team) 1.43.9 (50 laps)
Gino Rea (Gresini Team) 1.43.9 (57 laps)
Bradley Smith Tech 3) 1.44.0 (60 laps)
Toni Elías (Aspar Team) 1.44.2 (104 laps)
Axel Pons (Pons Racing) 1.44.7 (50 laps)
Alex De Angelis (Forward Racing) 1.44.9
Yuki Takahashi (Forward Racing) 1.44.9 (42 laps)
Xavier Simeon (Tech 3) 1.45.2 (67 laps)
Nico Terol (Aspar Team) 1.45.6 (63 laps)

[thro]

^^ motogp tyres maybe not well suited to production based bikes?


edit:
then again, to be fair moto 2 is a fairly well sorted class right now. pretty sure they're a fair bit quicker than the first year.

[ReCon]

Read that Suzuki also halved it's dealer network in the UK.
Think they may be holding tight with the r&d and spending until the world financial dramas get sorted. With a strong yen ,Jap bikes/ Suzuki struggles to compete with the Euro bikes in the western markets atm as well. Might be a good call financially and developement wise when we look back in 2015/16.

[Dr. Venkman]

I think I found out why Suzuki pulled out of MotoGp next year, they developed this :



So what happened here is on of two things :

1 : a grapfruit made sweet love to of those lunboxonaskateboard vans you used to see

or

2 : They left a group of engineers/car designers alone in a room full of drugs, pencils, paper without any form of competant adult supervision. They then realised that there was almost no money left and cut the GP team.